Stats Finals Review: Qualitative & Quantitative Data

If your teacher asked you to make qualitative observations about the class’s pet hamster, which group of words might be used?

• A  mass of 3 kg, 11 cm long, age of 16 months
• A  mass of 3 kg, 11 cm long, cute
• A  long hair, white and brown colored, soft
• A  temperature, length, weight

information gathered from observations, surveys and experiments

• data

• population

• sample

• stats

collection of ALL outcomes, responses, measurements or counts

• population

• sample

• stats

• data

collection of a subset of the population

• population

• sample

• parameter

• statistic

data that is attributes, labels or non numerical

• qualitative

• quanitative

data that is numerical

• qualitative

• quantitative

How many hours you have slept in the past 24 hours.

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

Whether or not you have slept for at least 7 hours in the past 24 hours.

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

Which hand you write with

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

Day of the week on which you were born

• Qualitative

• Quantitative